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Bug 79590

Summary:	[prefs] Helping users with change listeners
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	DJ Houghton <dj.houghton>
Component:	Runtime	Assignee:	DJ Houghton <dj.houghton>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description DJ Houghton

2004-11-26 14:27:19 EST

With the new structure when users are interested in preference change events,
they must register a listener on the node that they are interested in, as well
as a node change listener on the parent node to re-add their listener in case
the node is removed.

We should help users with their listeners. Currently the listeners are stored on
each node but we should investigate having a registry which perhaps keeps
listeners around across the life-cycle of nodes.

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2005-04-25 15:34:15 EDT

We will leave the change listeners on the nodes. We experimented with moving
them to a registry and had problems. See bug 89262.